This study aims to present a suggestion for teaching mathematics through a digital
game. Driven by the isolation scenario caused by the pandemic of COVID-19 and
associated with the need to adapt to technologies, we designed a game as an
auxiliary educational proposal for teaching the four fundamental operations of
Mathematics. Created using the Scratch programming language, the game entitled
“Mathematics Game Show” is a game of questions and answers about addition,
subtraction, multiplication and division. Due to the physical and social distance
experienced, the game had to be tested virtually with the majority of the 30
elementary and high school students from a school in the municipality of Marituba,
State of Pará, where the research was carried out, and from a questionnaire, we
obtained the results students' relationship with mathematics and digital games.
Through the analysis of these results, we observed that students do not feel
stimulated to learn mathematics with traditional teaching methods only, however
there was great acceptance of learning through digital games, as explained in the
research graphics. Through an experimental research methodology, the contact with
the game and its programming brought a new environment to the students, making
the process more fun, motivating, since they became an active part in the teaching,
and learning process.
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